NICARAGUA: Marines Rescued

When 39
U.S. marines and 48 Nicaraguan constables were attacked last week at
the remote town of Ocotal, by 600 armed Nicaraguans, only one
eyewitness came forward with a complete and factual albeit
hair-raising account. This personage, Senor Arnaldo Ramirez Abaunza,
chief municipal official at Ocotal, wrote:

". . . The hour is 1 a.m. . . . I hear shouts of 'death to the
Americans in the streets. . . . Six hundred or maybe 1,000 strong, the
forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino surround the...